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Zusatztext Anyone who is interested in the new natural law theory should check out this [imposing] book. Informationen zum Autor John Keown DCL holds the Rose Kennedy Chair in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, one of the world's premier centres of research into ethics. Having graduated in law from Cambridge he took a doctorate at Oxford and was then called to the Bar of England and Wales. Before being elected to the Rose Kennedy Chair he taught the law and ethics of medicine in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Queens' College and of Churchill College. Professor Keown has written widely in the field of the law and ethics of medicine. His research has been cited by distinguished bodies worldwide, including the United States Supreme Court, the Law Lords, the Court of Appeal, the House of Commons, the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics, and the Australian Senate, one of several bodies before which he has been invited to testify. He has served as a member of the ethics committee of the British Medical Association.Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. He holds a D.Phil from Oxford, where he studied under John Finnis and Joseph Raz. He is the author of numerous books, including Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality, and In Defence of Natural Law. Klappentext John Finnis is a pre-eminent legal, moral, and political philosopher. This volume contains over 25 essays by leading international scholars of philosophy and law who critically engage with issues at the heart of Finnis' work. Zusammenfassung John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical reasoning and moral choosing that addresses the great questions of the rational foundations of ethical judgments, the identification of moral norms, human agency, and the freedom of the will, personal identity, the common good, the role and functions of law, the meaning of justice, and the relationship of morality and politics to religion and the life of faith. The core of Finnis' theory, articulated in his seminal work Natural Law and Natural Rights, has profoundly influenced later work in the philosophy of law and moral and political philosophy, while his contributions to the ethical debates surrounding nuclear deterrence, abortion, euthanasia, sexual morality, and religious freedom have powerfully demonstrated the practical implications of his natural law theory.This volume, which gathers eminent moral, legal, and political philosophers, and theologians to engage with John Finnis' work, offers the first sustained, critical study of Finnis' contribution across the range of disciplines in which rational and morally upright choosing is a central concern. It includes a substantial response from Finnis himself, in which he comments on each of their 27 essays and defends and develops his ideas and arguments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' Preface Introduction: The Achievement of John Finnis Reasons, Goods, and Principles 1: Joseph Raz: Value: A Menu of Questions 2: Roger Crisp: Finnis on Well-being 3: John Haldane: Reasoning about the Human Good, and the Role of the Public Philosopher 4: Joseph Boyle: On the Most Fundamental Principle of Morality 5: Jeremy Waldron: What is Natural Law Like? Intentions in Action 6: Luke Gormally: Intention and Side-effects: John Finnis and Elizabeth Anscombe 7: Anthony Kenny: Intention and Side-effects: The mens rea for Murder 8: Kevin L. Flannery SJ: John Finnis on Thomas Aquinas on Human Action 9: Cristóbel Orrego: On Moral Philosophy and Kinds of Human Actions Justice, Rights, and Wrongdoing 10: John Gardner: Finnis on Justice 11: Matthew H. Kramer: Retributivism in the Spirit of Finnis 12: Leslie Green: The Nature of...
